> On Sep 15 07:34, Thomas Mueller wrote: > I am building up a system (FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE amd64) using synth, but even > when the packages build and appear in /var/synth/live_packages/All , some of > the packages don't install.
> When I type "which gnumeric", "which bison", "which abiword", I just get a > blank, and the executable files don't appear in /usr/local/bin . > This happened with math/gnumeric, editors/abiword-docs, among others. > I subsequently installed those packages by typing "synth install > math/gnumeric" and "synth install editors/abiword-docs", but how do I find > all the others that built and are listed in /var/synth/live_packages/All but > did not install? > I see > "ls -l /var/synth/live_packages/All" has 657 lines, while > "pkg info -a" produces 544 lines. > I piped to "more", then hit G to go to the end, then Ctrl-G, which showed the > number of lines. > This may not tell the whole story, but makes me believe there is a disparity, > and ask how to find and install those packages that built but didn't install. > Has anybody else been stung by this bug? Matt Smith responded: > Do you actually want those packages installed? The usual reason is that > they are build dependencies only required for building another package > and therefore they are in the repo but not installed. If they are run > dependencies actually required for another package to run then they > should be installed. > Freshports is a good site for looking at this. > http://www.freshports.org/ > If you search for something it tells you what is build and what is run. > Alternatively you can look at the ports Makefile for lines such as > BUILD_DEPENDS, RUN_DEPENDS, LIB_DEPENDS etc. In some cases, the named packages failed to install the first time (math/gnumeric and editors/abiword), and in other cases desired dependencies didn't install (devel/nasm and sysutils/coreutils, for instance). I need some of those build dependencies for other things like, for instance, cross-compiling Haiku and cross-compiling Linux toolchains, or other FreeBSD ports. Is there anything I can specify to install those build dependencies, and how do I go through /var/synth/live-packages/All and pkg info -a to install those packages that failed to install without missing something? Synth runs faster and more gracefully than portmaster, but portmaster installed everything that it built. Tom _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
